Interpersonal Skills

Interpersonal skillis a broad term used to denote all types of human social and emotional interactions with each other. It is encompassing individual’s capabilities to interact efficiently with peers and adults as well as their capabilities to form affective ties or social relationships in the form of attachment with a main caregiver, friendship with peers, and romantic relationships. Social interaction (SI) is defined as a reciprocal process in which children effectively initiate and respond to social stimuli presented by their peers or adults in diverse social settings and situations. Whereas, social interactions can be sporadic and include various individuals, social relationships inherently denote a mutual process of continuous interactions with a specific exclusive individual over a long period that enables the evolvement of affective bonding, closeness, and intimacy. Interpersonal interactions and skills are the basic unit of which social cognition